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		We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Layne Thomas Staley 
			 
			
				Alice in Chains  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nancy Gibbs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tamra Davis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oriana Fallaci 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edmund Phelps 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				R. L. Stine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ian Somerhalder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yolanda Adams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mandy Patinkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Harrison Ford 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gayle Forman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Malcolm X 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fergie 
			 
			
				The Black Eyed Peas